dead low water

Example Sentences

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It was dead low water now, and the ship was heeled at an angle, the propeller showing clean.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

A boat would just float there comfortably I supposed, at dead low water.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

We found that it was dead low water, and that the yacht had receded so much below the level of the quay, that no plank within reach would touch her. 

From The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk by Davies, G. Christopher

“Why, mother, is it dead low water, or have you stowed all away in the locker?”

From Newton Forster The Merchant Service by Marryat, Frederick

It was almost dead low water, you know, or we might have been able to save ourselves a long tramp—you couldn't call it a march.

From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Hodgson, Edward S.